Tweet An ambitious smartphone hack described by researchers would allow an attacker to accurately recreate what you’re doing on the phone by taking into account how much battery power each action consumes. Read more… Neowin

Tweet The dating network, OkCupid, has just made a significant change to the way users of the service receive new messages from potential dates. The new change helps filter out unwanted messages. Read more… Neowin

Tweet The Daily Beast is seeking to quash rumors that it will shut down following Tina Brown’s departure. The company’s interim CEO, Rhona Murphy, said Friday that the site “is not for sale and is not closing.” Parent company IAC has “approved in concept” the site’s operating budget for 2014, and it’s getting a redesign. Also, the Daily Beast “averages more than 15 million unique visitors a month, according to Omniture,…

Tweet A large chunk of data transfers on Earth are relayed by satellites, which hover above the Earth to provide services like TV and internet access. New research out of MIT has found that when these satellites fail, it’s often likely due to space weather — flurries of radioactive particles that bombard them and cause breakdowns over time. Researchers studied 26 satellite failures from a 16 year period and found…

Tweet On Monday a senior German official tried to put a lid on the persistently pesky NSA espionage affair. It’s election time soon, and the government can’t quite shake off the allegations that the U.S. has been spying on the Germans (a lot) and that the German authorities, which professed shock at said news, actually knew about this and maybe even helped using NSA tools. Ronald Pofalla, the chief of…